girls:
15.4k births since 1923
#1228 (79th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 1989
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.4k births since 1923
#2107 (73rd percentile)
The name Jaqueline is the #2,107 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,394 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 72.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,228 (78.5% percentile) for all time with 15,371 births since 1923. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1989.
Jaqueline first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for girls and 1989 for boys).
The name Jaqueline has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jaqueline reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 71.5% percentile (ranked #256) with 601 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 601 births per million (ranked 71.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jaqueline ranks #885 for girls (6.6% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jaqueline reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jaqueline".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jaqueline", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 106 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jacqueline" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jacqueline..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Jaqueline. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.4% confident that Jaqueline is pronounced as JAK-wuh-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAK-lihn, at 22.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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